Yoda

"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is."―Yoda, to Luke Skywalker

Counted the Stars

Counted the stars on the 4th of JulyWishing we were rockets bursting in the skyTalking about redemption and leaving things behindI have these pictures and I keep these photographsTo remind me of a timeThese pictures and these photographsLet me know I'm doin' fineWe used to be so happy once upon a timeOnce upon a timeBut the sun sank west of the Mendocino County LineAnd the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line

""SOME SEE A GLASS AS HALF FULL, SOME SEE IT AS HALF EMPTY, I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHO’S DRINKING MY RUM."

The Missus and I went over to Cambria, Morro Bay, Cayucos and Pismo Beach Saturday.
This is of the pier at Cayucos, taken on my Droid. We went to see the surf as there was a high surf warning.
I have a ton of pics on my Nikon D3000 and those will be posted after I upload at some later date and time.................

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Begin Rant From the Pigazette Here we go again, getting ready to harangue you
about things you already know. It won't hurt you to refresh your memory
on some Reality 101 tidbits. Who knows, you might stumble upon something
you didn't know...or be reminded of something you knew, but forgot. If this isn't meant for you, know-it-all Sparky, who is the intended target of this rant? Who indeed.

Idiots with self esteem who matriculated to the celebrated low information voter status need to know these reality bytes.

Low information Elected Tormentors like Hank Johnson - the man who
worries that the island of Guam will capsize, if Uncle Sam increases the
number of troops deployed there - REALLY needs to know these reality
bytes.

Anyone whose only source of 'just the facts' is the MSM needs to know these reality bytes.

Anyone who drinks the Kool-Aid served by the two major political parties needs to know these reality bytes.

The politically-motivated, whopper spewing, MSM bitches and bastards
who think we were born yesterday need to be hammered with these reality
bytes.

The activists who tweak reality to promote their particular agenda need to know these reality bytes.

Let's face it, everyone needs to know these reality bytes, especially
rational adults who are in mortal danger of drowning in an unrelenting
blizzard of bullshit.

Fundamental elements of objective reality
don't change, but they do fall out of favor and are relegated to
inconvenient truth status. Put another way, A is, always was, always
will be A. BUT, depending on the prevailing political environment,
asshats will promote their A is B brain fart with compelling conviction.

When it comes to reality bytes, they've been with us for a while. For
example, here in what's left of America, this reality byte rocked the
whole world in 1776:

When in the Course of human events, it
becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which
have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the
earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind
requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the
separation.--We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed,--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of
these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and
to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed,
will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for
light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown,
that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing
invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under
absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off
such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
[Declaration of Independence]

In 1916, an American religious
leader and influential public speaker, William John Henry Boetcker,
served up a memorable reality byte in a pamphlet named 'The Ten
Cannots':

The Ten Cannots

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

News Nitwits/media Meatheads

• Thespians are NOT smarter than the average bear. They're the
dishwasher at your local eatery who caught a break. You'll probably get
more meaningful insights from the dude who is still washing those dinner
plates in the back room.

• Learn to read between the lines:
Just because you heard it on the radio, saw something on TV or the
internet, doesn't make it true. News Nitwits and Media Meatheads always
put their own warped, maligned and sensationalized sense of
self-important spin on any given subject. Media Meatheads and News
Nitwits are ratings and revenue driven. Why do you think they tease the
hottest story throughout the broadcast only to show you a 10 second clip
at the tail end of the broadcast? To keep fools like us glued to our
idiotic electronic opiate box.

• If you hear, read or see something that offends you, it's YOUR problem, Sparky.

Big Brother & Big Sister Are Watching You, Too!

• The Nanny State only gets money from two places. The can print it,
making the money in your pocket worth less. Or, they can steal it from
some hard working fool - like you, Sparky - and give it to those
chronically-needy parasite.

• If you think for a nano-second
the Nanny State gives a rip about you - or the children - by enforcing
seat belt, motorcycle helmet, smoking and transfat laws, think again.
Big Brother/Big Sister are way too busy rewriting the Constitution,
catering to special interests and lobbyists, on top of conspiring to
separate you from your money and freedom.

• Korrectniks are, by
their very nature, humor-challenged asshats who use the Nanny State's
monopoly on the use of force to coerce the 'proper' behavior from you.
You are not allowed to say things that offend them. You are not allowed
to write things that offend them. You are not allowed to create images,
or artwork that offends them. Their message is clear and inescapable:
shut up, sit down, die in a fire you (pick your poison: racist, sexist,
homophobe).

• Al Sharpton and Je$$e
Jackson got rich and powerful by hunting down and exposing that racist
hiding in the woodpile. When America began to shed its racist past,
these Ethnocrats worried about an untimely end to their race card waving
enrichment.

Al and Je$$e want, need, rampant racism to stay
in business and they've shown a willingness to create some, when none
exists. The lesson here is obvious: we need to persuade these Ethnocrats
surrender their race cards, close shop and get a real job for a change.
Repeat after me, gentlemen, "Do you want fries with that?"

Enabling

• If you tolerate an evil, it gets stronger. This was driven home, with
telling clarity when rational adults laughed off political correctness
as an insignificant Ivory Tower phenomenon and, decades later, it has
embedded itself in every aspect of American life.

• A critical
mass of rational adults - many of them in the top echelons of political
power - turned a blind eye to the real enemy in our war on Jihadikazes.
This is not, as W - and Barry - claim a war against some fringe wingnuts
who 'hijacked a great religion'. We are at war with Islam itself, a
belief system whose endgame involves world domination - forcible
adherence to their supernaturalism - by any means necessary. In this
battle for our very survival, tolerating this evil is not an option.

• When you reward undesirable behavior, you get more of it. We did that
in 1986 by giving 4 million border jumping scumbags amnesty and we got
20 million more.

• Rewarding pachyderm punk Elected Tormentors
who spend like The One on a stimulus binge, encourages them to spend
even more and goads them into running up bigger deficits.

• Rewarding parasites with Nanny State freebies generated an explosive growth of the parasite horde.

If you think it has all been said and done, get over it.

• Under our Constitution, the Founding Fathers created a nation where a
small, island of government is surrounded by an ocean of inalienable
individual rights. Over the intervening years Elected Tormentors pulled
the big switcheroo, leaving a small, shrinking island of individual
rights surrounded by an ocean of government.

• If you were
paying attention during Bush 43, you know that putting the beltway
(establishment) pachyderm punks in charge isn't necessarily the fast
track to a smaller, properly constitutional government. Too many of them
like big government, too. The only real difference is how fast they
want to get there.

• The political atmosphere in D.C. is TOXIC.
Prolonged exposure, invariably turns the most rational Elected
Tormentor into a McCain or a Schumer.

• If you hate the gender
you were assigned at birth, that's your personal problem. You can pin
any label you want on yourself, but it doesn't change biological fact.
Your imaginary gender is irrelevant. If you've got a hole - original
equipment or a tribute to modern medicine - you do your business in hole
city - the women/ladies/girls facilities. If you've got a pole -
original equipment or a tribute to modern medicine - you do your
business in pole city - the men/boys facilities. If you cut to the
chase, you are what you're packing: a pole, or a hole. Why make it more
complicated, when it's as easy as that?

• Since it doesn't
produce anything, the government doesn't participate in the marketplace.
So where does it get the money it throws around? It steals it from the
individual who earned it, via taxes. OR, it prints it, making all the
money in your various investments and savings accounts worth less.

• If you get more money back from the government than it stole from
you, it is NOT a refund. It's welfare, laundered through the IRS.

• If you oppose some, or all, of The One's policies, it doesn't make
you a racist, no matter how vociferously the Obamunists brandish the
race card.

• Everything the Nanny State spews about the U.S.
Constitution is bullshit. Contrary to what they told you, the United
States Constitution delineates, with considerable specificity, the
limits under which our government operates. It does not include an
exhaustive list of inalienable individual rights.

• They're
also full of crap about the Bill of Rights. If an item is included in
the Bill of Rights, that does not mean that the government ever had a
Constitutional mandate to restrict it in the first place. Finally,
kindly remembere that according to the Ninth Amendment, individuals have
countless rights that are not listed in the prior amendments, rights
that the government must respect. Don't hold your breath waiting for the
Nanny State to admit THAT.

• The MSM lies about EVERYTHING.
Their reporting isn't informing you. It indoctrinates you. They're
promoting neo-Marxism in general and Barack Obama in particular.

Are you paying attention, mind full of mush Sparky? Are you getting the
big picture? Are you ready to take your brain out of neutral? I hope
so, because time is running out and we need your help to start turning
things around.

What, if anything, does all this table pounding
prose mean? It means, among other things, that I'm a lot crankier than
usual. It also means that We the People are running out of time, if we
want to leave future generations a better, stronger, more prosperous,
and freer American than the one we were born into.Rant Complete

Blatantly stolen from The Lexicans, that place for all of us.
There are some classics in this one!
The personal favorites are as follows:5. The man who flies an airplane … must believe in the unseen. ~ Richard Bach9. Flying is like sex —I’ve never had all I wanted but occasionally I’ve had all I could stand. ~ Stephen Coonts11. Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.18. I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. ~ Antoine de St-Exupéry20. When asked by someone how much money flying takes: Why, all of it! ~ Gordon BaxterThe rest are at the following link..............................................Some Aviation Sayings-Literary Plane Pr0n

I took Missus ORPO to Las Vegas this past weekend to see Paul Revere And The Raiders at South Point Hotel and Casino. We of course stayed at the very nice Nellis Inn on Nellis AFB. One must take advantage of the things one has earned.
Friday was just to have a splendid dinner at Landry's Seafood House on Sahara just off of I-15. Most excellent it was!
The show was Saturday Night and it was great as always. Paul Revere just turned 76 and is still a blast.

A former member of The Raiders, known as Fang was there and The Missus has an album from his band...........He autographed it for her with a big smile.

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‎"A liberal is a conservative that hasn't been mugged yet." Also, "If you are not a liberal at 18 , you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at 40, you have no head.

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"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful."--CS Lewis--

Political Correctness Explained

Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.